Lucie Skeaping chats to the award-winning flautist and recorder player Ashley Solomon, professor and Head of Historical Performance at the Royal College of Music and director of the ensemble Florilegium. The group, founded in 1991, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. In the last quarter of a century […] The programme includes excerpts from some of Florilegium's recordings including music by Bach, Telemann, Haydn, Monteclair, Couperin, Pergolesi and the Bolivian composer Roque Jacinto de Chavarria.
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Bolivian Baroque music sung by Bolivian singers. A very different take from that of (what I know of which is not quite updated) Ex Cathedra. At around 31.14.
Ashley Solomon talks about the group’s Bolivian projects and answers Lucy’s question about what the people in Bolivia then thought about the music brought in.
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